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Your Beauty is Worth Nothing... (Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert)

Francaise title: Ta beauté ne vaut rien
Spain title: No te basta con ser lindo
Greek title: Η ομορφιά σου δεν αξίζει τίποτα
Russian title: Вашата убавина не вреди ништо
Original title: Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert

Youth drama – Austria
Production year: 2011
Movie length: 86 minutes

Director: Hüseyin Tabak
Writer: Hüseyin Tabak
Cinematograph: Lukas Gnaiger
Music: Judit Varga

Movie description:

Veysel is only 12 when his parents (a Turkish mother and a father who was a Kurdish fighter), his older brother, and he are granted political asylum in Austria. Veysel does not understand the language his classmates speak at school, and at home his family is in crisis as all members seem unable to understand each other. But in his own world, Veysel loves Ana. He is shy and, trapped in his difference, does not dare to approach her, but he dreams of her and watches her from a distance. When he is told to memorize and recite a poem in German for school, he asks his neighbor to help him learn it so that he can dedicate it to his first love. He chooses the translation of a song from his home country, a text that holds great significance for his family, and that may be the instrument of a family reconciliation and the promise of an acceptable future for those he holds dear.

Boy Actors